Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	know_v	scripture_n	truth_n	7,532	5	5.8743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56436	The stone which the builders have rejected, the same is now become the head of the corner: or, Christ exalted into his throne and the scripture owned in its place.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P534; ESTC R218197	8,582	8

therefore shew themselves to be as ignorant as the Pharisees who only supposed him to be the Son of Ioseph yet wondred at his power and the works that were done by him as these do now wonder at the prosperity of this ministration of Light and to see how it prevails upon the hearts of the people so that they know not what to think of it they are not able to encounter with it but that they see it strikes so much at their Diana and lyes so hard at their foundation so that it makes their building totter therefore the Rulers Priests and Pharisees takes counsel together saying one to another If we let this people alone all men will go after them and they will draw away whole nations therefore they take the same course as ever the false prophets did joyning together with the earthly powers to make war with the Lamb persecuting stocking whipping imprison and shamefully intreating his messengers whom the Lamb sends forth to bear testimony of this Light in peoples consciences where we have a witness both in them that believe and in them that perish and also striving all the wayes they can by their evill incensing lying raylings and false accusings and reporting to defame this light and leaven your mindes against it that if it were possible to put it out that stil they might uphold their fathers kingdom of Darkness and bear rule by their means over the blinde carrying captive the mindes of people but who is able to make war with the Lamb or who shall withstand the day of his coming Saul Saul it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks and though they call the Scripture their rule and guide yet in this it witnesseth against them to be in Cains way and Balaams way and in the gain-saying of Core and so have not God Iude 11. 2 Iohn 9. but are found to be of the generation who are born after the flesh persecuting them that are born after the Spirit Gal. 4. 29. And though they call the Scripture their Rule and Guide yet they receive not power from it to inable them to walk according to it but are altogether erring from it in any thing that crosseth self but as many as receive the light receives power to follow it and come out of the corrupt sinfull nature which they live in who know not the Light Iohn 1. 12. And here the Light is above the Scripture and though they say the Scripture is the judge and tryer of spirits yet in the same it witnesseth against them to be lyars and bears witness of Christ to be Iudge and tryer and searcher of the heart and discerner of the thoughts Hebr. 4. 12. Rom. 1. 16. 1 Pet. 4. 5. And that whatsoever makes manifestation is Light Eph 5 13 Therefore that which makes manifest false spirits is the light and not the letter which light manifested and discovered false spirits before the Scripture was written and also though they say the Scripture is the judge and tryer of spirits yet by the Scripture they cannot discern or judge of spirits else what makes all this difference in judgment amongst them who profess to try spirits by the scripture and profess it to be their Rule and ground their judgement upon it yet are so confused in the same and never a one knows which is the truth when as the way is but one so that it follows that they have nothing but the Scripture without are still without in darkness and confusion as all those appears to be who call the Scripture their rule and guide and judge and tryer of spirits and yet knows not the truth but are jangling and wrangling and arguing and disputing and contending about the Scripture every one with a severall judgment upon it surely this distraction is not in the Scripture for it was spoken from one and all agrees in one therefore you that so profess the Scripture see if you can finde it out by the Scripture and see where you are but they that are in the light have fellowship one with another 1 John 1 7 and are of one heart and one soul Acts 4. 33 and all agree in one and are Epistles wrote one in anothers heart 2 Cor 3 2 and by the light they cry and discern false Spirits and in it are able to judge them and open the Scriptures without wresting adding or diminishing and by it do know they are of God because they love one another with the same love with which Christ loved them 1 Ioh. 4. It is not such love which is to day and to morrow cross the will and it is turned into wrath and anger nay that love stands in the corrupt will but this love stands in the bond of peace which doth indure and here again the light is above the Scripture and though they say the light must be received from the Scripture yet in this the Scripture doth witness against them and bears witness of Christ to be the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world and they that could never read letter of the Book have this light which is sufficient to teach them and lead them into all truth after they come to the knowledge of it and from this light the Scripture was spoken 2 Pet. 1. 21. and without this light none can read the Scripture with understanding and here the light is before the Scripture and out of it all the children of darkness are shut with their busie mindes and vain contending spirits and though they say they must receive life and salvation from the Scripture yet in this the Scripture witnesseth against them and testifies of Christ to be the alone fountain of life and salvation and that there is no other name under heaven by which wee can be saved Psal. 30. 9. 14. 100. And that the Pharisees had the Scripture yet had not the light neither could see that he was the Christ though the Scripture bare testimony of him or either would come unto him for life and salvation but trusted in the Scripture thinking there to find eternall life and therein found it not Ioh. 5. 39. 40. As all you are now who are seeking the living among the dead and here again the light is above the Scripture which light is within us the hope of glory Coll. 1. 26 27. and those that cannot witness this are in the reprobation though they have the Scripture without 1 Cor. 13. 5. and from it we receive life and salvation and from no other and this alone is our guide teacher Judge and Law-giver if we never see Letter Luke 1. 79. Iohn 6. 45. Isa. 33. and this alone is the ground and foundation of our faith and hope by which we are made able to cry Abba Father 1 Cor. 3. 11 Rom 8 15 And here it is not Self that judgeth or condemns but Christ that liveth in us Gal 2 20 and it is not Self that justifies us